Printable Formal Fallacy Handbook
A printable PDF explaining 6 formal fallacies with examples. Recommended for teens and adults.
Formal fallacies are mistakes in an argument’s logical structure. They’re fallacies because the conclusion doesn’t logically follow from the premises. Unlike informal fallacies, formal fallacies don’t depend on context or subject matter: you can spot them even after translating the argument into symbols.
This printable handbook gives an overview of six formal fallacies with real-world examples. It is recommended for teens and adults.
- Affirming the Consequent
- Denying the Antecedent
- Denying a Conjunct
- Affirming a Disjunct
- Fallacy of the Undistributed Middle
- Fallacy of Four Terms
A free online version is available on Critikid's blog.
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This resource is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Non-commercial use, sharing, and distribution allowed with credit to Critikid; no modifications except faithful translations with attribution.